[Roran, Reception Room]
Three Sunagakure jōnin were waiting here.
Among them, a young jōnin looked toward the team leader beside him, who was around forty years old and had a firm and resolute appearance.
"Captain Tetsusai, do you think Queen Sara will agree to our request to form an alliance to attack Konoha?"
The team leader named Tetsusai shook his head and sighed, "Difficult, or rather, there's almost no hope."
The young jōnin showed some anxiety on his face, "But the front lines are about to collapse. We're all citizens of the Land of Wind. During the war against Kumogakure, we even fought side by side."
"Why won't she help this time?"
Tetsusai looked at the young jōnin whose eyes still carried some naive clarity and said, "Frian, it's different."
"When we were fighting Kumogakure, we had a common goal, to defend our homeland. But this time, we initiated an attack on Konoha. The battlefield is not within the Land of Wind."
The young jōnin was not convinced, "But we're attacking Konoha because they went too far!"
"They actually took advantage of our war with Kumogakure to loot and seize our share of mission commissions!"
Tetsusai's gaze was calm, "Frian, no one explicitly stated that citizens of the Land of Wind must accept commissions only through Sunagakure."
He said frankly, "It's just that we're truly too poor and can't afford the loss of commissions being taken. So, we have no choice but to fight Konoha."
"Roran is different. Their hard-won peace is not something they'd easily trade for war."
The young shinobi named Frian showed a trace of unwillingness. Clenching his fists, he said, "Damn it, why does Konoha get to have such fertile land, and we don't?"
His words struck a chord with Tetsusai. A trace of confusion flashed in Tetsusai's eyes, "Yeah, I want to know why too."
At this moment, beside the two, the previously silent young kunoichi snorted.
"Don't forget our mission here."
"A mere queen of a small nation, what Purple-Robed Dragon Queen, I think it's just fame greater than strength, nothing special. At worst, we'll use force..."
However, her words were interrupted by Tetsusai. He frowned and said, "Rurisha, I'm a survivor of the Wind-Lightning War. I've seen the Queen of Roran in action, she's absolutely not someone an average jōnin can face."
"You must not provoke her anger."
Tetsusai was very troubled. These two teammates of his, though both were geniuses of Sunagakure, one was too naive, and the other extremely arrogant.
Especially Rurisha, born of a noble clan, looked down on everyone, and now even disregarded Sara.
Did she think that a war-time title was earned through flattery?
That was built from a pile of corpses.
The young kunoichi was still unconvinced and couldn't help but say, "I don't even know why the higher-ups are so respectful to the queen of a small nation. Just one girl, how could she possibly turn the tide of battle?"
Tetsusai was about to speak, but at that moment, Sara slowly entered with a few attendants.
The three immediately looked toward Sara.
She gracefully gave a respectful bow to the three and smiled, "I'm late. Please forgive me."
Tetsusai was about to say that they were the ones being impolite, but before he could speak, Rurisha had already raised her voice arrogantly.
"Queen Sara, is it? Quite the airs you've got! We came all this way, and you kept us waiting? Do you look down on Sunagakure?"
Tetsusai slapped his forehead, he felt like dying.
They were the ones coming to ask for help, how could Rurisha not understand?
Sigh, under total war, most shinobi were dispatched to the front lines. Personnel were seriously lacking, so they had to be assigned this problematic teammate.
Now look what's happened?
Tetsusai still wanted to salvage the situation, but Sara calmly said, "You came suddenly and weren't part of my schedule."
"In fact, Roran had issued a ban prohibiting any shinobi from entering. You've already violated that regulation."
Rurisha became enraged, "What do you mean by that? Are you planning to go to war with Sunagakure?"
A few months ago, Sara might've been concerned. But now, backed by Akatsuki and having seen Master Madara's full-body Susanoo level mountains-cleaving power, Sara wasn't intimidated at all.
She said lightly, "Guests are guests, but if you insist on framing it this way, then I can only follow my rules, and expel you."
Rurisha laughed in anger. In truth, she wasn't totally ignorant, but when facing Sara, she felt inexplicably furious.
Since childhood, she had grown up surrounded by praise. Many people said she would become one of the top kunoichi in the Land of Wind.
But recently, the praise changed, the Purple-Robed Dragon Queen seemed to have become someone no less than the Kazekage, the strongest kunoichi in the Land of Wind.
How could she accept that?
In a moment of impulse, she had already drawn the large fan on her back.
She shouted, "Wind Release: Wind Cutter!"
After speaking, she was about to swing the fan, unleashing a violent gust to tear the person in front apart.
Rurisha's two teammates both turned pale. This technique had great power, if she really swung it, it would cause irreversible consequences.
However, before the fan could fully swing, a purple chakra arm extended from Sara's body, and in a flash, it caught Rurisha and bound her completely.
Even though Sara had always been known for her gentle temperament, her expression darkened now.
She looked at Tetsusai, who was obviously the leader, and said, "Did you come here to cause trouble?"
Tetsusai, feeling lingering fear, quickly bowed, "Apologies, we were too impulsive. We had no such intention."
Beside him, Frian and Rurisha both turned pale.
Sara was known as a powerful figure, they had long heard of it.
But how powerful, they had no concept.
Now, they understood.
In an instant, she subdued a jōnin, just as Captain Tetsusai had said.
Rurisha still refused to yield, struggling as she shouted, "Let me go! Even if you're stronger, so what?"
"You're on the Land of Wind's soil, if you upset us, once the war with Konoha ends, we'll attack you immediately!"
"Can you alone stop Sunagakure's invasion? Even if you can, don't you care about the lives of Roran's people?", This time, Sara was thoroughly enraged.
Her people were her bottom line, and now someone had touched that.
Having spent time with Obito, Minato, and others, she had thought the shinobi of the Five Great Nations were all cultured.
Now she finally understood just how arrogant the Five Great Nations were?
No wonder Hanzo of the Salamander wanted to start a war, willing to fight three villages alone to make the Five Great Nations submit.
They really were loathsome.
Her expression changed, and in an instant, a massive aura swept toward the three Sunagakure shinobi.
The three were almost instantly immobilized by the pressure.
From Sara, they felt an indescribable weight, as if they were facing not a person, but a weathered and heavy city.
Cold sweat poured down Tetsusai's face as old memories resurfaced.
Under immense pressure, he opened his mouth with difficulty, "This is… your aura?"
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